J. Nelson-Seawright

J. Nelson-Seawright (aka JNS/Roasted Tomatoes) is a political scientist, his academic interests focusing on research methods, parties and elections, and Latin America. J. and his brilliant wife, known to the online world as Serenity Valley formerly ran the Latter-day Saint Liberation Front.

J.’s interests away from work include Mormon history, especially in the pre-Utah period; music; movies; literature; and getting enough sleep.

Kulturblog

Time to update Susan’s post from August of 07. “They say that these are not the best of times, But they’re the only times I’ve ever known. And I believe there is a time for meditation In cathedrals of our own.” -Billy Joel, Summer Highland Falls

NOTE: This is an essay I wrote as an undergraduate at the University of Utah almost thirty years ago. I am republishing it here as a remembrance of my favorite professor, Mark Strand, upon the occasion of his passing. Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live… […]